More from Henry David Thoreau

  1. Aeschylus had a clear eye for the commonest things. His genius was only an enlarged common sense. He adverts with chaste severity to all na…
  2. Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable. No day…
  3. Poetry - No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficien…
  4. Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same…
  5. Friends - They are like air bubbles on water, hastening to flow together. History tells of Orestes and Pylades, Damon and Pythias, but why …
  6. We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.
  7. That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.
  8. The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civ…

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